Patton Oswalt & Twitter

Patton Oswalt is ditching the internet for the summer of 2014. If you follow the 45-year-old comedian on Twitter or Facebook, then you already know that he's a very active voice on social media.

Like any good comedian on Twitter, he used the medium creatively and subversively, most recently stirring up controversy with his series of "fake apology" tweets where he mimicked the type of tweets major corporations and celebrities send out after making embarrassing or offensive public gaffes.

Previous Tweet very hurtful. Already deleted. @KimKardashian & @JoeBiden are national treasures. As are our Native American friends.

That all ends today. This morning, Oswalt announced in a beautifully written status post on his fan page on Facebook that he will be retiring from the internet from today, June 2nd until September 2nd.

I'm going radio silent until Tuesday, September 2nd. The most recent post on my Facebook will explain why: http://t.co/RvO2r2mmiQ

The message did not fall on deaf ears: the comedian has 1.74M followers on Twitter alone,. So, why has Oswalt chosen to go "radio silent" for the summer? He did receive a lot of misinformed and poorly aimed backlash for some of his #YesAllWomen tweets. And it seems like the ignorance-turned-anger irked him somewhat. He also showed solidarity to fellow funny guy Seth Rogen, whose film Neighbors was recently singled out by a film critic as the type of male-entitlement-celebrating mainstream media that spurred on Eliot Rodger's rampage. Rogen was obviously outraged by the conclusion and Oswalt publicly commiserated with him about the nature of clickbait and social media pile-ons.

Welcome to the Click-Bait Club, @Sethrogen. You want a drink? I'm running a tab.

However, all this recent drama aside, if you read the post in full, it's clear that Oswalt is suffering from an affliction many of us can relate to: internet over-saturation. Too many links, too many clicks, too much pressure to know, and be the first to know, and the first to have an opinion and too little time spent absorbing it all patiently and quietly. Oswalt's message connects like a bat to a ball with the general feeling of internet weariness floating in the atmosphere right now. He poetically illuminates so many emotions about our relationship with the internet that you've probably felt before, but never put into words. We wish him luck with his vow of silence — and we hope he knows his voice is one that will be missed.